hōng​rǎn

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hōng bake

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
huǒ fire
Sound component
gòng together with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰloːŋ
qʰloːŋs
ɡoːŋ
ɡloːŋs

說文解字

尞也。从火共聲。《詩》曰:“卭烘于煁。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

rǎn dye, infect, be contagious

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water
Sound component
mixed, various
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnyemXC.n[a]mʔ to dye

說文解字

《說文》:“染,以繒染為色。从水,杂聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica